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Old 10-15-2008, 03:58 PM My site in IE and Firefox
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In Firefox, my site’s format is balanced, the contents on the home page is centered and there is less white space. In IE, its looks almost lopsided and there is a ton of white space. The site is in HTML and not sure what to do to balance it for both browsers. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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Old 10-15-2008, 04:45 PM Re: My site in IE and Firefox
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No offense, but that's one of the nastiest mess of tables and divs I've ever seen. WHY do you bother using divs is you're going to stuff the whole thing inside tables ?? It's such a waste.

You'd be much better off dumping the tables for layout and going with CSS.

Aside from that - you have NO DOCTYPE - something you MUST have if you have any expectations of similarity between browsers.

You're using a ton of deprecated tags like the <font> tag and a slew of <spans> that are completely unnecessary. Your code doesn't even come close to validating. Clean up your code first, then you might be able to ferret out what's causing the imbalance.
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Old 10-15-2008, 05:50 PM Re: My site in IE and Firefox
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Thank you for your input. This is my very first time using HTML and its obvious I have no idea what I'm doing. I have no idea with CSS is (only used it a bit for my Wordpress blog to get the basics down).

Ill look up what doctype, etc actualy mean before messing around with it.
Thanks!

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Old 10-15-2008, 08:45 PM Re: My site in IE and Firefox
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A DOCTYPE tells the browsers how to render your pages. Without one, IE renders in Quirks mode - which is generally bad.

You can learn about doctypes here:
http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/doctype.html

You're new at this.. so now is the time to learn to build a site the right way - no tables.
I highly recommend this book:
http://www.sitepoint.com/books/html2/
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Old 10-15-2008, 08:52 PM Re: My site in IE and Firefox
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Thanks for the links. I found someone to help me with the html on this one. Its good to at least know why my site didnt have the same look on different browsers.
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